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  • Looks like our Managing Editor and Android Correspondent Nicolas Wiggins just was OTA’d ICS (Android 4.0.3) to his Motorola XOOM. I however have not been so lucky. Start hitting that “check for updates” button. We’ll be back with our first impressions soon. NOTE: Nicolas is not a member of the Motorola Users Forum which leads us to believe the first wave of ICS is rolling out on a large scale. All Images Credit To: Nicolas Wiggins. Update: We decided to ask Motorola what the deal was. So far now official reply, but some of their fans are commenting in. Update 2: My tablet finally was able to pull the ICS...

    Updated: Motorola XOOM WiFi Receiving OTA to ICS NOW!

    Posted on January 18, 2012 | View Comments
    Looks like our Managing Editor and Android Correspondent Nicolas Wiggins just was OTA’d ICS (Android 4.0.3) to his Motorola XOOM. I however have not been so lucky. Start hitting that “check for updates” button. We’ll be back with our first impressions soon. NOTE: Nicolas is not a member of the Motorola Users Forum which leads us to believe the first wave of ICS is rolling out on a large scale. All Images Credit To: Nicolas Wiggins. Update: We decided to ask Motorola what the deal was. So far now official reply, but some of their fans are commenting in. Update 2: My tablet finally was able to pull the ICS...

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  • Remember earlier this year how the Motorola XOOM was the first device to run on Android 3.0 Honeycomb? Well, the XOOM will also be the first tablet to run Ice Cream Sandwich. Android 4, as it will be officially known as, will be showcased along side the Galaxy Nexus on Wednesday morning in Hong Kong (it will be 6pm Tuesday night here in Seattle), and the XOOM should be the first device to get it OTA within the next few weeks, but it isn’t clear whether it will have it before or after the Galaxy Nexus drops in early November on Verizon. Stay tuned for more ICS info, tomorrow night...

    [QUICK HIT] Android 4- The XOOM Calls “Firsties!”

    Posted on October 17, 2011 | View Comments
    Remember earlier this year how the Motorola XOOM was the first device to run on Android 3.0 Honeycomb? Well, the XOOM will also be the first tablet to run Ice Cream Sandwich. Android 4, as it will be officially known as, will be showcased along side the Galaxy Nexus on Wednesday morning in Hong Kong (it will be 6pm Tuesday night here in Seattle), and the XOOM should be the first device to get it OTA within the next few weeks, but it isn’t clear whether it will have it before or after the Galaxy Nexus drops in early November on Verizon. Stay tuned for more ICS info, tomorrow night...

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  • Just a few days after the last update (HTK55D), the WiFi only edition of the Motorola XOOM is receiving another update, this time to HTK75D. This update brings us the all new Android Market, scaled to better fit the tablet form factor. We are not sure what else it brings, but everything is running smoothly. To manually update go to Settings> About tablet> System updates. More shots of the new market after the break.

    Motorola XOOM WiFi receives another update.

    Posted on September 29, 2011 | View Comments
    Just a few days after the last update (HTK55D), the WiFi only edition of the Motorola XOOM is receiving another update, this time to HTK75D. This update brings us the all new Android Market, scaled to better fit the tablet form factor. We are not sure what else it brings, but everything is running smoothly. To manually update go to Settings> About tablet> System updates. More shots of the new market after the break.

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  • I was just about to check some email on my XOOM when I get a nice little pop-up message, telling me that my device had an OTA update ready for it. Naturally I click download and what do you know, Android 3.2.1 was waiting to install to my XOOM. According to information on the “restart & install” screen, this version (HTK55D) brings “security fixes” and “enhancements” to the XOOM. I’m not sure what those “enhancements” are, but I will update this article if I find anything amazing. According to Android Police, this is update is a bit slow to roll out to users, so you might want to see if...

    Motorola XOOM Receives Mysterious OTA Update.

    Posted on September 20, 2011 | View Comments
    I was just about to check some email on my XOOM when I get a nice little pop-up message, telling me that my device had an OTA update ready for it. Naturally I click download and what do you know, Android 3.2.1 was waiting to install to my XOOM. According to information on the “restart & install” screen, this version (HTK55D) brings “security fixes” and “enhancements” to the XOOM. I’m not sure what those “enhancements” are, but I will update this article if I find anything amazing. According to Android Police, this is update is a bit slow to roll out to users, so you might want to see if...

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  • The war against the companies rage on, and in this week’s episode, we have Apple and Samsung and Germany. The country has decided in a hearing that, due to the design of the Tab 10.1, which is eerily similar to the iPad, all sales in the European Union will be halted for the tablet, except for the Netherlands. Samsung naturally responded to the hearing favoring against it (clearly), and will fight back at the ruling. This comes in light of Apple suing Samsung across the world for theft of intellectual property, in this case, the design of the Korean company’s 10.1 inch tablet. Apple hopes to block the sales of the tablet...

    Apple suit against Samsung in Germany wins out in favor of Apple, Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales halted in EU

    Posted on August 10, 2011 | View Comments
    The war against the companies rage on, and in this week’s episode, we have Apple and Samsung and Germany. The country has decided in a hearing that, due to the design of the Tab 10.1, which is eerily similar to the iPad, all sales in the European Union will be halted for the tablet, except for the Netherlands. Samsung naturally responded to the hearing favoring against it (clearly), and will fight back at the ruling. This comes in light of Apple suing Samsung across the world for theft of intellectual property, in this case, the design of the Korean company’s 10.1 inch tablet. Apple hopes to block the sales of the tablet...

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  • To quote CNET’s Molly Wood on the Nexus Prime “this takes the mobile arms race and turns it into global thermonuclear warfare, in a good way.” Though she was talking about the rumored Nexus Prime, I feel she would say the same about this totally amazing rumor, that we really hope turns to fact soon. Motorola could have an Android Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4) tablet in the works. Now that’s exciting in and of it’s self, but lets look a bit deeper. This tablet could be packing a retina display murdering resolution of 2048×1536 (yes it 4:3, but this would be insane). Plus it apparently will be powered by...

    Rumor Time: The Tablet to Rule, Kill, and Destroy all others.

    Posted on July 13, 2011 | View Comments
    To quote CNET’s Molly Wood on the Nexus Prime “this takes the mobile arms race and turns it into global thermonuclear warfare, in a good way.” Though she was talking about the rumored Nexus Prime, I feel she would say the same about this totally amazing rumor, that we really hope turns to fact soon. Motorola could have an Android Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4) tablet in the works. Now that’s exciting in and of it’s self, but lets look a bit deeper. This tablet could be packing a retina display murdering resolution of 2048×1536 (yes it 4:3, but this would be insane). Plus it apparently will be powered by...

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  • Yep, this is better then your iPad. Source: Samsungmobilusa (Youtube).

    Epic Win: Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 takes iPad on head first.

    Posted on June 10, 2011 | View Comments
    Yep, this is better then your iPad. Source: Samsungmobilusa (Youtube).

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  • Upon the release of the iPad,  both the first and second iterations, many websites and people themselves were calling the device a giant iPod Touch. Those people had legitimate reasoning: It ran a very similar operating system to the iPhone and iPod Touch, and really didn’t have a lot more functionality. But one thing it did have was a higher resolution display and a much more complex and intense SDK, the latter which really made use of the screen real-estate the iPad had (and of course, still has). Go into the App Store, and it’s almost guaranteed that you’ll find applications for the iPad that its smartphone counterpart doesn’t have, such as a Photoshop extension...

    Editorial” The HTC Flyer: Just a giant smartphone?

    Posted on May 25, 2011 | View Comments
    Upon the release of the iPad,  both the first and second iterations, many websites and people themselves were calling the device a giant iPod Touch. Those people had legitimate reasoning: It ran a very similar operating system to the iPhone and iPod Touch, and really didn’t have a lot more functionality. But one thing it did have was a higher resolution display and a much more complex and intense SDK, the latter which really made use of the screen real-estate the iPad had (and of course, still has). Go into the App Store, and it’s almost guaranteed that you’ll find applications for the iPad that its smartphone counterpart doesn’t have, such as a Photoshop extension...

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  • ANDROID SESSIONS We’ve added a stream of the Chrome Sessions. Enjoy. CHROME SESSIONS

    LIVE: Google I/O Android Sessions. Day 2.

    Posted on May 10, 2011 | View Comments
    ANDROID SESSIONS We’ve added a stream of the Chrome Sessions. Enjoy. CHROME SESSIONS

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  • There ya go, it doesn’t get any more official than that. Today at Google I/O, the Google team announced the newest version of Android, and in Quarter 4 of this year, we will be rockin’ Android 2.4 on our devices. As I said only minutes ago, Android Ice Cream will be on both tablets and phones alike, bringing your beloved devices together in technologic harmony and bliss. And, one day soon, Google Android will be on everything. Your house, your car, ect. This is only the beginning, and it looks like that for the next few years it will be a boom in Android. Step aside iOS, Android is now...

    Android Ice Cream Sandwich is Official, Prepare for the Awesome!

    Posted on May 10, 2011 | View Comments
    There ya go, it doesn’t get any more official than that. Today at Google I/O, the Google team announced the newest version of Android, and in Quarter 4 of this year, we will be rockin’ Android 2.4 on our devices. As I said only minutes ago, Android Ice Cream will be on both tablets and phones alike, bringing your beloved devices together in technologic harmony and bliss. And, one day soon, Google Android will be on everything. Your house, your car, ect. This is only the beginning, and it looks like that for the next few years it will be a boom in Android. Step aside iOS, Android is now...

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